Follies of the Madmen #429

Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 16, 2019 - Comments (0)
Category: Aliens, Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, 1970s

Worst Cereal Name and Ingredients Ever?

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More info here.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 14, 2019 - Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Food, Twentieth Century, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust

Follies of the Madmen #428

"Grape Nuts will make you Emperor of the World."

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Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 11, 2019 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Food, 1910s

Glacier Rub

I guess you can't keep a good (?) idea down. Particularly poignant product name in an era of climate change.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 08, 2019 - Comments (1)
Category: Body, Head, Business, Advertising, Nature, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century

Follies of the Madmen #427

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Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 04, 2019 - Comments (1)
Category: Business, Advertising, Crime, Fashion, Sexuality, 1960s

Follies of the Madmen #426

Favorite shirt of pistoleros everywhere!

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Posted By: Paul - Mon May 27, 2019 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Fashion, Guns, 1950s

Follies of the Madmen #425

Would any "respectable" company today use, oh, Dita von Teese as their product spokeswoman?

Oh, wait a minute--they would!

Posted By: Paul - Thu May 16, 2019 - Comments (3)
Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Sex Symbols, 1950s, Twenty-first Century

Sears unveils new logo

Sears recently spent what is certainly a large amount of money to redesign its logo. When it unveiled the results last week, it explained:



However, a lot of people have commented that the new logo looks an awful lot like the logo of Airbnb.



The irony here is that when Airbnb unveiled its logo, back in 2014, it was also controversial. People complained, first, that it looked too much like testicles, and also noted its similarity to existing logos, such as these:



This isn't the first time a company has spent a lot of money to redesign a logo, only to come up with something similar to an existing one. When NBC TV unveiled a new logo in 1975, after spending almost $1 million for a redesign, the result turned out to be almost identical to the existing logo of the Nebraska Educational Television Network.

Posted By: Alex - Sun May 12, 2019 - Comments (5)
Category: Business, Design and Designers

Follies of the Madmen #424

This ad raises the intriguing question: "What female thing did the saddle screw to produce the wallet?"

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Posted By: Paul - Sat May 11, 2019 - Comments (3)
Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Sexuality, 1940s

Follies of the Madmen #423

Flock of giant mutant kiwis in human shoes more disturbing than whimsical.

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Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 29, 2019 - Comments (4)
Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, 1960s, Australia, Fictional Monsters